Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

You can measure success by the number of friends who have remained loyal to you, and you to them.

I value my friendships and go out of my way to commit time and energy to them.

I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone's place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.

With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

Real friendship is a slow grower.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

I appreciate your support, particularly this year, for sticking with me.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.

Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You've got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we're best friends on top of it, so we're very fortunate.

Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.